Meet The Rogers:

Pastor Don R. Rogers is the youngest of 12 children, born in Elora Ontario. As young as age 13 he felt that he would one day be in the ministry.  During his teen years he served as youth leader in his home Church.

Carol (the youngest of 5 children) moved to Elora when she was 13 yrs old and Don already had his romantic eye on her.  They began dating in their late teens and after about 1 year Don asked her to marry him.  A couple days later Carol responded with an enthusiastic 'yes'

The Rogers have three children.  Kevin is married and pastoring an inner city church in Windsor Ontario.  He and his wife Marsha have three children.

Lynn is married and serves with her husband as music pastors at Windsor Christian Fellowship.  They have seven children.

Wanda and her husband live in Amherstburg Ontario and have two children. Her husband has three children to a former marriage.

Don had done some lay ministry in the early years of their marriage, then in 1966 began a Bible College Correspondence course out of Eastern Pentecostal Bible College.  At the same time, he was invited to become the pastor of the Pentecostal Church in Southampton Ontario.  It was a small congregation that promised to pay them $15.00 per week 'if it came in'  Some rather remarkable answers to prayer took place which resulted in a Dairy foreman job in Port Elgin Ontario.

Just a few days before the dairy job opened, after a Sunday evening service the Rogers talked about what the would do.  They only had about $50 left and no job to support the family.  Don decided to drive to Elora and talk with his former pastor for some advice. He dropped in at his parents place and discovered that their home church had received a grocery shower for them the day before. They had no idea how they would get the groceries to the Rogers (about 90 miles away)

The pastor was not home, so Don went to Guelph Ontario to see another pastor for advice.  He was quite familiar with Southampton and really wanted us to stay there and minister to those people.  After some encouraging words and prayer, he gave Don a cheque for $100.00 (more than a week's pay in the 60's)

So off to home Don goes with the cheque and a car literally full of groceries.  - the trunk, the back seat, and the front passenger side all loaded.  Passing through Harriston Ontario, he dropped by to visit his sister & brother in-law.  He learned that they had a young calf that had broken it's back and would need to be butchered. His brother in-law said the Rogers  could have the meat, but would have to come back and pick it up.

The next day, Don got a temporary job in Owen Sound that would begin the following week. A  week, later Don picked up the meat from the butchered calf, then drove to Port Elgin to rent a frozen food locker for storage.  During the conversation with the manager of the dairy there, he was told that when the job in Owen Sound ended, there would be a job waiting for him in Port Elgin. About 3 months into the job at Port Elgin, Don was made foreman of the dairy operations.

As we look back on those days, we are blessed to realize how the Lord provided for us in so many ways.

God is faithful.

 "The Weeping Merchants"

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